Rail-joint.



P. HIDEG.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATON HL-ED MAYH, His.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAIH C0,, WASHINGTON, D. C.

P. HIDEG.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. I915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL HIDEG, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALEXANDER NAGY, OF BISHOP, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented'Nov. 30, 1915.

Application filed May 17, 1915. Serial No. 28,796.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PAUL HIDEG, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Kilbuck Station, Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in rail joints.

An object of the present invention is to provide a rail joint of the scarf type and in which the meeting ends of the rails are interlocked in such manner as to obviate the use of fastening bolts, fish plates or other fastening means at the joint, and which connection will securely lock the rail ends in operative position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a rail joint simple in construction and which may be easily joined together and held in such position by a key associated with the tread portion thereof.

With the above general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and then claimed.

In the accompanying drawings which show the preferred embodiment of the present invention and to which reference is had herein by like characters designating corresponding parts throughout the several views :Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a portion of two meeting rail ends constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on line IIIIII of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the rail ends, and, Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the locking key.

Referring more in detail to the accompanying drawings, the reference numeral 10 designates supporting ties of the usual construction, while the rail fastening spikes 11 are also indicated of the usual type. Mounted upon the ties 10 are the rails with the meeting ends thereof designated 12 and 13.

The construction of each end of the rail will be hereinafter described.

The rail end 12 includes the tread portion 12' having the contacting end thereof cut-away to provide a downwardly projecting portion 14, which portion is cut inwardly as at 15 to provide a projecting nose 16. The web portion of the rail 12 is similarly constructed, with the contacting forward portion 17, an incut portion 18 and a nose portion 19. A second downwardly proecting portion is designated 20 and is similarly cut as at 21 to provide the rearwardly directed portion 22, and the remaining portion 23 of the web of the rail 12 extends downwardly to the adjacent tie 10. The other rail end 13 is complementally constructed relative to the rail end 12 and includes the tread portion 13. The tread portion 13 is provided with a transverse cutaway portion 24 having an under cut portion 25 to provide an overhanging ledge or nose portion 26, the upper Wall 27 of the nose portion being disposed in the plane of the tread of the rail end. This portion 27 of the tread 3' and a part of the web of this rail end are cut-away as at 28, and further undercut as at 29 to provide a second overhanging nose portion 30 while a similarly constructed upstanding portion 31 is formed in the web of this rail and includes the projecting nose portion 32 and the undercut portion 33.

In assembling the meeting rail ends, the same are positioned side by side and moved toward each other so that the adjacent noses and cut-away portions of each rail will register and interlock as indicated in Fig. 1. The rails are held in this interlocked position by the usual spikes 11 and to further prevent accidental movement or displacement of these interlocked ends, I prefer to provide registering recesses 3 1 in the rail treads to constitute a seat for the locking key 35 shown in Fig. 5. By inserting the key 35 within the recesses 34:, lateral movement of wardly depending staggered portions in spaced relation longitudinally of the rail and each having a nose portion directed backward toward the rail, the remaining rail end being cut away from the tread downward to provide a staggered series of upstanding portions spaced longitudinally to lateral movement of one mil end With refit the spaces adjacent the noses of the first spect to the other. 1 rail end and provided further With a series In testimony whereof I aflix my signature of noses interlocking With the first series of in presence of two Witnesses.

noses, said rail ends being provided With PAUL HIDEG. opposed recesses extending longitudinally of Vitnesses:

their treads and opening into each other, GEO. A. YOUNG,

and a key fitted in said recesses 'to prevent C. M. MILLER.

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Washington, D. G. 

